LT147-4-SP-CO:
Practical Podcasting
2024/25
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
15
04 July 2024
Requisites for this module
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BA LP33 Media and Digital Culture,
BA LP34 Media and Digital Culture (including Placement Year),
BA P300 Media and Digital Culture (Including Foundation Year),
BA PL33 Media and Digital Culture (including Year Abroad),
BA P500 Multimedia Journalism,
BA P501 Multimedia Journalism (Including Year Abroad),
BA P503 Multimedia Journalism (Including Placement Year)
This module will get you up and running in the world of podcasting. You’ll learn advanced production skills and develop the ability to tell great stories through sound. In this module the classroom becomes a studio and the instructor becomes an editor. You will work both individually and collaboratively to produce your own short and long-form podcasts.
You will learn such production skills as recording, editing, mixing and mastering; and become familiar with a wide range of production equipment including microphones, field recorders and audio interfaces. You will also develop such enduring journalistic skills as researching, scripting, and interviewing for stories.
The aims of this module are:
- To familiarise students with all aspects of the podcast medium, an immersive, serialised form of storytelling that’s become increasingly crucial to the modern journalistic industry.
- To develop students’ technical production skills to give them a key advantage in a competitive field.
By the end of this module, students will be able to:
- Use with proficiency a wide range of production technology, including editing software, studio equipment and field recording equipment.
- Find and research stories, interview sources, and produce compelling pieces of narrative audio.
- Produce a journalistic project from conceptualisation to release.
- Critically reflect on the various aspects of the production, from research, storytelling to production.
Transferable Skills:
The module will help students develop such transferrable skills as:
- Research, analysis, problem-solving, creation and innovation.
- Communication, collaboration, and interaction.
- Initiative and resourcefulness.
- Subject knowledge, professional skills, specialist knowledge, and cultural and global awareness.
Lectures
- Introduction to Podcasting
- Planning a Podcast: Scope and Identity
- Finding stories
- Researching stories
- Storytelling: Structures & Conventions
- Storytelling: Voice, Sound, Music
- Storytelling: Intros and Endings
- Interviews
- Developing a Script and Mapping your Story
- Pitching stories
Workshop
- Recording a podcast in a studio
- Recording a podcast in the field
- Editing I
- Editing II
- Mixing with music and sound effects
- Conducting an interview
- Developing your voice (Voice coaching)
- How to engage listeners
- Finding and expanding your audience
- Publishing and Marketing
The module will be delivered via:
- A weekly 2-hour workshop that includes one hour of instruction and a one hour practical session where students take part in a production process.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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